Tag Archives: software
A box with something in it
Alex Payne has written a thought-provoking piece on the use of organization software on the Mac. In his “The Case Against Everything Buckets” article he tells you why their use isn’t a good idea. But I’m going to tell you why that isn’t always the case and how I came to that conclusion.
In a nutshell….
3rd [...]
Junky movies, junky start-ups
Waiting in line at Safeway, I noticed the crappy movies near the impulse buy candy: Adam Sandler’s Zohan and Mike Myers’ Love Guru and they got me thinking…. So many junky disposable movies get produced. So many junky disposable start-ups get funded. Where do the similarities end?
Studios are a bit like VCs. They even share [...]
An idea for the iPhone and GPS
Once again success! Panning for gold in my archives brings this nugget from June 2003:
Amble Time / “A shortcoming of standard maps is their inability to convey a sense of temporal scale. Can I stroll to the park for lunch, or would it take me all day? Amble Time adds an element of time to [...]
Science Machine
Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.
Testing out some new Tumblr-like code.
This is a time-lapse of an Adobe Illustrator master doing his thing. One of my favorite new Portishead songs provides the soundtrack.
Design micro to macro
There are some interesting parallels between the ideas in Janine Benyus’s book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature and Richard Gabriel’s recent essay “Design Beyond Human Abilities” (big PDF).
Biomimicry is a survey of solutions the natural world has come up with to solve problems. Everything from spider webs to photosynthesis to the way chimps medicate themselves [...]
Vat Grown Home
Math and architecture go hand in hand. Scale, proportion and ratio turn into the shapes and spaces we inhabit. The orientation of your home to the sun, lots of math. The stretching & shrinking of the glass windows in your office building, loads of math. Even your stairs, the risers and treads calculated to best [...]
All agog over Twitter
There’s apparently a “solution” out there that’s just right for me and it’s called Twitter. Sadly I’m having a hard time coming up with the right problem for it to solve. As of now, I’m thinking it involves me not having a novel way of showing off my dog Clyde.
Here’s a short description I found [...]
Itching a scratch with Python, del.icio.us and 3×5 index cards
Once again I found myself at a bookstore, so overwhelmed with choice I forgot what I was looking for. Never again. With some help from effbot, ReportLab and my trusty Python, I whipped up this, what-to-read.py.
In a nutshell, this little script grabs up to 15 items recently tagged “readinglist” from my del.icio.us account, applies some [...]
Leopard, Interactive Cities and SRL
It’s been a slow hot summer and now it’s payback. Here’s your schedule for the week of August 7-13.
Interactive City Summit on the 7th & 8th.
ISEA2006 from the 7th until the 13th.
Survival Research Labs on the evening of the 11th.
WWDC06 from the 7th until the 11th.
Going to go? Let [...]
No more data soup